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Questions before purchasing…
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Marco which SSD are you testing with?
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[Eric Santiago] “Marco which SSD are you testing with?
Would appreciate a tip or two ;)”I purchased a couple of Crucial M4 512GB drives and also from SanDisk Extreme 480GB. So far, I like SanDisk Extreme the best. Until the camera starts shipping, I can’t say specifics, but I can say the SanDisk operates perfectly, boots up quickly, and just overall seems better. Even though it’s slightly smaller than the 512GB Crucial SSDs, I’m planning on going DanDisk Extreme from here out unless things change (I just picked up another one actually). Prices are low too.. starting at about $350, but stock is looking scarce… people are buying them for the camera I guess. Price-per-GB ratio compared to my SXS cards makes SSDs seem like chump change. Gotta like that.
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John Brawley just posted a few minutes ago on BMCuser that the new, shorter list in the BMCC user manual includes the ones BMD currently recommends.
I posted a link to the BMCC user manual here in this forum, but here it is again, and also the list from page 27 in the manual:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/detail?sid=27541&pid=27542&leg=true&os=mac“SSD’s recommended for use with Blackmagic Cinema Camera and RAW 2.5K video recording include:
Crucial 256GB C300
Crucial 512GB M4 (firmware 009)
Kingston 64GB SSDNow V+100
Kingston 128GB SSDNow V+100
Kingston 240GB SSDNow V+200
Kingston HyperX 240GB
Sandisk Extreme 480GB.Please check the tech notes on the Blackmagic Design web site for the latest compatibility information.”
The SSDs listed above, that BMD has tested as being fast enough for continuous BMCC RAW recording, can also be used for recording BMCC ProRes & DNxHD.
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Thanks Marco, Ill consider the SanDisk option.
Now what are folks stocking up with as far as the smaller drives?
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[Eric Santiago] “I was first gung ho for the big drives but I think a couple of small ones would be a safe bet in most cases.”
You can, but the bigger drives perform a little faster than the smaller ones which is something to consider.
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[Eric Santiago] “Now what are folks stocking up with as far as the smaller drives?
I was first gung ho for the big drives but I think a couple of small ones would be a safe bet in most cases.”What will you use the “smaller drives” for exactly (RAW? ProRes? DNxHD? hand-off to clients? all?), and how are you planning to connect them to your computer(s)?
BTW, 3TB 3.5″ Seagate 7200rpm SATA-3 bare HDDs are less than $150 now. Enclosures can be relatively inexpensive, and are available with a variety of interfaces (FW800, eSATA-2, eSATA-3, USB-3, or Thunderbolt.)
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Thanks Marco I was not aware that the smaller drives were slower.
Peter Ill probably be in the same boat as you for the first few months since both dont have TB MBP 🙂
I have a plenty of RAIDs to connect too.
My Mac Pro workhorse has an ATTO SAS with a GTECH eS Pro RAID attached.
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I have strong feeling that you have mac pro that is to old.
I have one of those.
Look at the ram speed. seems identical to my machine that i had and which will not run resolve
without special gpu setup and some tweaking. and after that you get 8 bit imagery as well.With mac book pro you have to have a model with nvidia card otherwise no magic.
see system profiler if you have 3.1 version machine then it is not supported by BM.
I hope i have been mistaken but i doubt it strongly.
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Margus
DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro
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